The Indian roads are the maximum risky among international going in the number of road visitor injuries and the ever-increasing number of fatalities resulting from them. The current Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, was archaic and in dire need of change to deal with development in road safety, improve public delivery, and improve shipping-related services available to the public.
The identical urgency was introduced to mild, and the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill changed into framed and passed by the Lok Sabha in 2017. The same could not be exceeded via the Rajya Sabha and lapsed with the dissolution of the sixteenth Lok Sabha.
In 2019, the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019 was passed by using Lok Sabha on July 23 and was tabled earlier than the Rajya Sabha by the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari. It has been exceeded by the Rajya Sabha on July 31 and is looking forward to the President’s final nod. The present Bill objectives to instill a feeling of the subject in the road customers and make Indian roads more secure.
From the coincidence sufferer’s perspective, the Bill defines ‘golden hour’ as the time period of up to one hour following demanding harm. The probability of preventing demise through prompt hospital therapy is the very best. The Bill additionally calls for the Central Government to establish a Motor Vehicle Accident Fund, which increases the ambit of protection for the treatment of persons injured in a hit and run accident, pay reimbursement to the legal heirs of the deceased individual, and someone grievously harmed in a hit and run accident. The compensation in a hit-and-run instance stands enhanced from Rs 25,000 to Rs 2 lakh in case of death and Rs 12,500 to Rs 50,000 in grievous harm.
The stronger reimbursement will help more victims of hit-and-run accidents and/or their families file claims under the hit-and-run scheme. The Bill additionally proposes an improved penalty for offenses and driving without a valid license, rushing, dangerous driving, drunk riding, and motor plying without a permit to act as a deterrent towards site visitors’ violations.
